Pocket-wrench.



PATENTED AUG. 18, 1908.

M. M. MORGAN. POCKET WRENCH.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 3, 1907.

INVENTOR WITNESSES: M." J, Qm

MARVIN MILTON MORGAN, OF OAKBAR, CALIFORNIA.

POCKET-WRENCH.

Specification of Letters Patent. 1

Patented Aug. 18, 1908.

Application filed December 3, 1907. Serial No. 404,922.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MARVIN MILTON MOR- GAN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Oakbar, in the county of Siskiyou and State ofCalifornia, have invented a new and useful Pocket-Wrench, of which thefollowing is a specification in such full and'clear terms as will enablethose skilled in the art to construct and use the same.

This invention relates to pocket wrenches and its object is to make awrench that will fold into a compact form and which will always be readyfor service with but very little trouble.

Another object of the invention is to make a wrench that will be of sucha nature as to be able to turn a nut in an almost inaccessible place, asfor example Where a nut is in the bottom of a hole much larger than thenut.

In the drawings in which the same numerals are applied to the same partsthroughout, Figure 1 is a lan of the wrench as it appears unfolded, ig.2 is a side View of the wrench with a part of the link cut away, and

T Fig. 3 shows the wrench folded up and ready to put in the pocket.

The wrench is formed of a series of links, the center link 1 being thelargest and also the deepest. Extending off to one side are the links 2,3, 4, 5, and the screw driver 6 all this series of links being pivotedfrom the' upper left hand pivot of the center link 1 looking at thedrawing. Extending in the opposite direction are the links 7, 8, 9, 10and 11, the latter set being of a size intermediate the size of theother set of links in order that other sizes of nuts may be turnedreadily. This second set of links is pivoted to the lower right hand pinof the large link 1 looking at the drawing. It will be noted that eachlink of the two sets folds into each other link and that the two sets oflinks fold over into a compact nest with the large link, the two sets oflinks folding over on each other. It will be understood that the linksare pivoted together rather stiffly and that in turning a nut that thereis little side strain so that the nut may be easily turned by a wrenchthat may fold up in other planes. It will also be clear that it will bepossible to turn a nut in a rather deep hole by bending the set of linksand giving the wrench a twisting motion in the other plane in which itis rigid, but this gives qluite a heavy side bending moment to the lin{S that may be substantially at right angles with the lane of the nut.

Having thus described my invention what I claim as new and desire tosecure by Letters Patent of the United States is as follows:

1. In a folding wrench, a large link, and a series of decreasing smallerlinks one of which is pivoted to the large link and each of the othersto its adjacent link.

2. In a folding wrench, a large link, and a series of links decreasingin size and adapted to fold into each other, each of the links beingpivoted to its adjacent link.

3. In a folding wrench, a large link, and two series of links decreasingin size as they recede from the large link, the sizes of the links onone side of the large link being dif-- ferent from those of the otherset.

4. 'In a folding wrench, a large link, and two series of links attachedthereto and adapted to fold over on each other and within the largelink, the sizes of the links being different on each side of the largelink and the sizes of the links decreasing as they recede from the largelink.

In testimony whereof I have set my hand this 19th day of November A. D.1907, in the of the two subscribed witnesses. MARVIN MILTON MORGAN.Witnesses:

JEROME BEEBE,

GEORGE MAGOFFEY.

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